back in former life when worked in fish factory...the shark got a soaking in white vinegar n water...the vinegar took away any smell.pretty good at doing same for your hands too.
Printable View
back in former life when worked in fish factory...the shark got a soaking in white vinegar n water...the vinegar took away any smell.pretty good at doing same for your hands too.
Here’s one to pull on y’a mates next time out.
https://twitter.com/thefigen/status/...ZH7ujR7kYQ58bg
Out with @Pengy yesterday, was a cold easterly wind that wasn't forcast and anywhere we tried to hide out of it was shit fishing... Eventually we decided to man up and anchor up in the wind and caught some carrots and cuda and the inevitable sharks.
Finally the wind stopped and it came out nice.
New prop on the boat...very pleased with it should have done it ages ago.
Attachment 200871
Attachment 200872
Attachment 200873
Quick trip to Westport and back today to go and pull some pots with a couple of mates.
Attachment 200874
Attachment 200875
Attachment 200876
Cheers Cam. It was a pleasant surprise to get the invite and not have to get ready for the usual Cam Oclock ;)
As described, we had a bit of a catabatic easterly that made things uncomfortable, but the weather goods played nicely in the end, and we got a feed of my fave fish so all is good in the world.
@stingray. You will be pleased to know that I didnt f up with the biggest cod of the day.....but it was a close call :)
I did....just
Sent from my SM-A336E using Tapatalk
Took a random old chap off the internet out today. He has moved down from the manakou, he wants to learn the local fishery and is retired so can fish during the week.
Conditions were good, a bit of that cold catabatic easterly but not as bad as the other day.
Fishing was pretty good for small tides midday fishing.
No longline,a couple burlys we kept 11 or 12 really good size gurnard and realeased 6-8 legal but bit smaller models.
One good Kahawai and as the current dropped the spiky dogs turned up and I got the shits with it and went for a cod. 3 legal blues one good one called it and come in before the high to be able to get on the trailer in the creek.
All in all a very productive couple of hours rod fishing.
Attachment 201011
Attachment 201012
Nice Carrots VC, is there any typical ground / worm beds for then that you target or is just a case of drifting around and finding them?
is that arch out around the island? looks pretty impressive
While the gurnard are pretty much everywhere inshore in winter they can be caught in numbers in as little as 3m .....which is good because the spiky dogs tend to be deeper out in the mud.
Doesnt mean you wont catch sharks in shallow but you will definitely catch less of them.
For gurnard in winter I target banks and change in bottom type in areas with current but far enough from reef to not be overwhelmed with undersized cod.
Basically its a juggling act from being too deep out on the mud and getting sharked out and too close to the reef and codded out.
People can and do drift fish the bays for gurnard.....you will catch gurnard like this no doubt and I have done it a number of times but I believe this method is more suited to those restricted in range and load capacity like the multitudes of kayak fisherpersons in Nelson.
I have the ability and means to fish slightly further afeild so feel that I should/have a moral responsibility not to hammer the close in spots and by going further afeild I can target current and ankor and burly the fish in.
That particular arch is out on the reef structure that sticks out from hori bay.
"The night before a fishing trip" , that should be in the Truths thread !
Do you find the gurnard respond to burley trails, @veitnamcam ? I normally drift around with a softbait and get onto them that way.
I'm going to target fishing in the wash a bit more this summer. See if I can lure out any kelpies
Today I got to wet a line, weather sport and a daughter all got there shit together and we bugger off to okiwi, it was a last minute plan so my youngest drove whilst I had a beer and yarned ..arrived at the batch ..into bed .
Up to a hell of a frost so raising my darling daughter took a bit …raised the angry bear out of her den..had a feed and a couple of brews of tea then set sail . Down to the coast bashed a few cod. My darling daughter slaughtered a couple of beauties which improved her mood no end.
Had smoko set the burley with some current for carrots snagged two then the shit fish came on the chew …moved two more carrots the the same shit fish swallowing hooks …
Pulled the pin at high tide headed in early and cleaned up , sat in the afternoon sun with my daughter yarning laughing before packing up and coming home.
Vis was rubbish so didn’t even gear up for a dive. Plenty of birds about but no bait schools .
Saw new born lambs on the way home …spring is coming and along with it the snapper and blue water.
So I get home from work after a 12 hour shift and the Mrs tells me the boys (one is mine, the other is his mate) have got their heart set on fishing tomorrow. Not wanting to let them down, I've just spent the last two hours getting everything ready. Quick run out the harbour for snapper in deeper water, then back in as the wind is picking up at 10am. After that, it'll be filthy bait and burley fishing in the harbour, if I can even remember how to do it. Boys have high expectations and want to bring a fish home each :oh noes:
Successful mission, phew!
https://i.ibb.co/0F0TvPh/IMG-4985.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/2Kgfxp0/IMG-4992.jpg
Smiles say it all …well done dad …you’ve created more fishermen!
This man has tried, he’s got a sneaky two piece rod ..to cast top water lures at kingi HQ ( French pass) even took the Shearer down with him, he’s tried slow jigs on a hot snapper bite , he’s tired bottom ships on a hot snapper bite , Gibo when you have a few days spare come show us how to catch Tasman bay snappper on lures …then I would love to see a kingi on anything apart from a jig.
The challenge is on. I would love an afternoon yarning about lures fishing and bloke stuff …but I’d love to see a Tasman bay snapper caught on jig soft bait etc. …no bait no burley etc
Be careful what you wish for Stingray, Gibo may come down and never leave. You already have Pengy down there, if Gibo comes (and stays) then Dundee may jump the ditch and all of a sudden Nelson will start to look like Hobbiton. In fact I reckon Pengy will have a photo somewhere of these three when they were ranked short, shorter and shortest in a certain wool shed several years ago. Oh and as an after thought, I reckon Gibo is up for your challenge.
One day I will come down, its on the list near the top
Apparently fishing is an ok past time again according to mini me.
Him and I got a couple of hours in fishing last nights tide, only landing a sand shark but that made the effort worth it apparently.
So we were off floundering today so I was told at 9am this morning.
Flicked out a few messages but all the handy full size Humans were either at work or sporting, so I grabbed VCs lad and we headed out to wage war shortly after lunch.
It is winter aye?
Wetsuits on and into it. Here's me hoping I can supervise from the shore, nope, "You are the tallest (just) so you get the deep end". Well bugger me it wasn't a very low tide.
First drag through the ole honey hole pulled 4 flatties on deck, weed cleared and in again, heading upstream for a short drag into shallower water, for my benefit apparently..
Nothing but weed.
Back down below the honey hole for the third drag just as the tide turned, sees me swimming to the far shore to tow the net upstream. It wasn't a very low tide remember.
A heap of weed and looks like we struck out again. We start clearing the net and preparing to depart, with the promise of brewing a hot chocolate when we get to the carpark.
One of the apprentices sees movement and rescues one lucky last flatties from certain drowning.
Five tasty morsel for our efforts. A bit smaller than the usual offerings but hey, winter and all, so we are happy.
Dried off, a warm drink and we head home content.
More than we could have caught on the couch. The couch was a damned sight warmer though eh lads.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...2661c8a47a.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6c59986fc0.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...99b18c31ee.jpg
Cool mate!! Glad to see you making the most of the last weekend of the school holidays [emoji106]
A couple of west coast kahawai for us...[emoji41]
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...450c4fa3f9.jpg
Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk
Hi Nelson/Tasman Fishers,
I am heading down next week for 3 to 4 weeks or so and just wondering if its worth while bringing the surfcaster with me?, I will bring my fly rod with me to have a crack in the winter limits.
Also available if anyone needs a decky (wont have my boat fishing gear with me on this trip) or flounder net dragger or spearing. I assume winter fishing not as productive as summer from off the beaches?
Cheers FBD